Hudson announces Creature Defense for PSP

PSP owners will get a taste of something new this fall from Hudson Entertainment: a downloadable strategy title called Creature Defense. Creature Defense combines Tower Defense gameplay with card-based gaming fundamentals to create a different kind of strategy game - allegedly. In the game players defend their land from invading attackers using a deck they create. After creating said deck, players use the cards to defend against a variety of attackers, keeping in mind what its strengths and weaknesses are and using an appropriate card.

Special skills and attacks are added to the player’s arsenal as the game goes folds. The game also offers new levels and attributes to explore, as well as 50 types of Monster Cards available for download. Hudson hopes that Creature Defense is an ongoing adventure for strategic minded gamers.

Look for the game sometimes this fall.

Legends of Norrath: Travelers released

Sony Online Entertainment has launched Travelers, the eighth add-on to the Legends of Norrath online collectible trading card game based in the EverQuest universe. Travelers introduces all new challenges for players, complete with new characters and storylines that send players to the Planes themselves. Travelers Features new cards, an all-new 200 card starter that can be used to create four different starter decks, new loot cards including exclusive new encounters in EverQuest and EverQuest II that open all-new chambers and rewards of loot and XP and -In EQII - players can combine several key cloaks to create the game’s first wearable - a visible backpack, while In EQ three new collection items will grant players the Frozen Skull of the Cursed which equates to a unique mercenary.

Find out more about it by visiting www.legendsofnorrath.station.sony.com.

Konami Locks Down Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG License

Konami has decided to take control of the popular Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game, according to a statement issued by the company today. Besides being a popular and lucrative trading card franchise in North America and Asia, the Yu-Gi-Oh! brand is also a popular series of cartoon shows and video games.

Konami holds the exclusive rights to the card and video games in North America and various countries in South and Central America and Europe, but before today had a hands-off approach to the trading card part of the license. Kazumi Kitaue, Chairman and CEO of Konami Digital Entertainment, said that taking control of the card game will allow the company to have more synergy between the collectible trading card game and the video games.